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At Lift Humanity Foundation, we’re committed to creating a better future for the most vulnerable members of society. In collaboration with Ecocykle Limited and other civil society organizations, we’re proud to introduce our PET Eco-Friendly Toilet Project, a groundbreaking initiative that tackles plastic pollution and open defecation in public schools. THE IMPACT Our project at Nyanya-Gbagyi Primary School in Karu, Nasarawa State, has made a significant difference. By utilizing 6,500 plastic waste bottles, we’ve not only reduced plastic pollution but also provided a safe and hygienic sanitation facility for students. This initiative aligns with the Nigerian government’s priority for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and supports our mission to provide humanitarian response, climate justice, and pro-poor development. KEY HIGHLIGHTS INNOVATIVE SOLUTION : Our PET Eco-Friendly Toilet Project showcases the potential of plastic recycling in creating sustainable infrastructure YOUTH-LED INITIATIVE : This project empowers young people to take ownership of environmental issues and develop innovative solution COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT : We’ve worked closely with local stakeholders to ensure the project’s success and encourage community-led initiatives. ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS : By reducing plastic pollution and promoting sustainable waste management, we’re contributing to a healthier environment and mitigating the effects of climate change. A STEP TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE We believe that this project can serve as a model for other communities and organizations. We urge the Federal Ministry of Environment and other civil society organizations to join us in our efforts to end plastic pollution and promote sustainable environmental practices. WATCH THE STORY To learn more about our PET Eco-Friendly Toilet Project, watch the video of the commissioning ceremonyhttps://www.facebook.com/share/v/16yNWs7kWg/See the attached photos of the completed Eco-Friendly Toilet below. Together, we can create a better future for all. Join us in our mission to promote sustainable development, climate justice, and humanitarian response.

As part of the World Youth Skills Day 2022 Commemoration, Lift Humanity Foundation, in partnership with Break Free from Plastics Initiative, organized a pivotal training for 67 community women and youths on the production of biomass briquettes in Zabi Ward, Zaria, Kaduna State, on Saturday, 16th July 2022. According to Mr. Pius OKO, representing Lift Humanity Foundation, sustainable energy access is a crucial factor in addressing material and structural poverty. There is a growing consensus that global energy poverty is heavily concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Currently, about 580 million people in the region, roughly 75% of the global total, lack access to electricity (IEA, 2019). Even more concerning, around 80% of the population, nearly 800 million people, still rely on traditional biomass sources like wood, charcoal, and dung for cooking. Mr. OKO stated that in Nigeria, less than 30% of the 200 million population has access to uninterrupted electricity, which is primarily sourced from the unreliable national grid, leaving many communities without power. Consequently, energy demand far exceeds supply. Ms. Ameedat Abdulsalam, Project Manager at Lift Humanity Foundation, highlighted the significance of the training, which equipped participants with practical skills in biomass briquette production. The initiative empowered women with enhanced knowledge to address climate change adaptation and develop evidence-based advocacy strategies. She stressed that the transition of businesses and households, especially in vulnerable regions, alongside early planning to prevent stranded assets in fossil-fuel-dependent industries and communities, is just as critical as implementing core climate policies. This requires policy alignment across all sectors of the economy. Additionally, she emphasized the importance of identifying essential technical, institutional, and community capacities needed for a transformative approach to tackle climate change, as well as exploring innovative financing mechanisms to drive impact on a large scale.

1. Climate Change TV:https://www.climate-change.tv/119342. Pius Agaji Oko, Nigeria, What they are doing at COP26: Presenting the voices of those vulnerable to climate change in Nigeria. The more COPs we have, the more issues pile up. The environment will not wait for us. The erratic rainfalls, the droughts, won't wait. What we are clamoring for here is not on the table. Rural people in Nigeria contribute little to climate change but will suffer the most. These people need the utmost care. They need finance to cope or to transition into alternative livelihoods, but the major decisions at COP26 are mostly coming out of the private sector surrounding net-zero. Issues of investment, businesses, and loans are not touching our reality. We hope that, at the last moment, COP will deliver, and listen to the voices that need to be heard.https://www.businessinsider.com/delegates-activists-workers-explain-how-they-feel-about-last-two-weeks-of-cop26-2021-11?r=US&IR=T3. Nigeria-France Dialogues: Are you doing enough in the fight against Climate Change?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=057X_gqvwRw4. At COP26: Update Of Week 1https://csdevnet.org/csdevnet-at-cop26-update-of-week-1/ 5. At COP26: Update Of Week 2https://csdevnet.org/csdevnet-at-cop26-update-of-week-2/ 6. Pathways for inclusive implementation of the Paris Agreement in Africa at the Cop26 Commonwealth Pavilion Thursday11th November 2021 morninghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Od9zDGBMUs&t=7817s7. 11 November 2021 | Two PACJA-led side events at COP26 focused on mobilizing global support for locally-led livelihood improvement projects using the 8 Principles of Locally-Led Action (LLA).  The “Activating Youth Voices to Accelerate Locally led Adaptation Actions in Africa and Beyond” and Integrated Locally-Led livelihood improvement project “Tujiinue Tena” both took place at the Locally-Led Adaptation Hub at COP26 on on 11 Nov 2021 and 9 Nov 2021 respectively. https://pacja.org/using-joomla/extensions/components/content-component/list-all categories/85-news/291-pacja-holds-a-side-event-on-locally-led-adaptation-actions-in-africa-and-beyond Activating Youth Voices to Accelerate Locally led Adaptation Actions in Africa andBeyond The side-event “Activating Youth Voices to Accelerate Locally led Adaptation Actionsin Africa and Beyond” concluded with a call for steady financing and capacity support for more practical actions at local level by African youth representatives including Francisco Josué Lara Fletes (Costa Rica), Pius Oko (Nigeria), Dann Diez (Philippines), Laura Fúquene Giraldo (Colombia) and Rufaro Nyasha Matsika (Zimbabwe). It was concluded that youth needed to build effective alliances throughout the global south on youth for local level climate action. Learning from the experiences of the South-South Youth Platform on Climate Action, the Nairobi Summer School on Climate Justice was birthed on August 30, 2021 at the Kenyatta University in Kenya to build new bridges and bring the voices of frontline communities into the international arena. The school also sought to bridge the conversation between prominent scholars, communities and other stakeholders on climate justice in the Global North and those in Global South, while providing an opportunity to explore diverse possibilities on climate justice. 8. Pius OKO as Youth, Climate and Sustainability Summit Speakershttps://www.yourcommonwealth.org/uncategorized/youth-climate-and-sustainability-summit-speakers/

Nigeria Climate/Biodiversity Advocates and Chevening Scholars Dialogue with Prof ParthaDasgupta Theme: Biodiversity Policies and Economic Growth; the role of advocacy.Ogranised by the British High Commission on May 17, 2022 Nigeria Climate/Biodiversity Advocates and Chevening Scholars Dialogue with Prof ParthaDasgupta Theme: Biodiversity Policies and Economic Growth; the role of advocacy.Ogranised by the British High Commission on May 17, 2022 Nigeria Climate/Biodiversity Advocates and Chevening Scholars Dialogue with Prof ParthaDasgupta Theme: Biodiversity Policies and Economic Growth; the role of advocacy.Ogranised by the British High Commission on May 17, 2022 x-raying his boon on The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, Prof ParthaDasgupta  stated that we are totally dependent upon the natural world. It supplies us withevery oxygen-laden breath we take and every mouthful of food we eat. But we are currentlydamaging it so profoundly that many of its natural systems are now on the verge ofbreakdown. Today, we are now so mechanically ingenious that we are able to destroy a rainforest, themost species-rich ecosystem that has ever existed, and replace it with plantations of a singlespecies in order to feed burgeoning human populations on the other side of the world. Nosingle species in the whole history of life has ever been so successful or so dominant.Plundering every corner of the world, apparently neither knowing nor caring what theconsequences might be. Each nation is doing so within its own territories. Those with landsbordering the sea fish not only in their offshore waters but in parts of the ocean so far fromland that no single nation can claim them. So now we are stripping every part of both theland and the sea in order to feed our ever-increasing numbers But consider the following facts.  Today, we ourselves, together with the livestock we rear for food, constitute 96% of the mass of all mammals on the planet. Only 4% is everything else – from elephants to badgers, from moose to monkeys. And 70% of all birds alive at this moment are poultry – mostly chickens for us to eat. We are destroying biodiversity, the very characteristic that until recently enabled the natural world to flourish so abundantly. If we continue this damage, whole ecosystems will collapse. That is now a real risk. Putting things right will take collaborative action by every nation on earth. It will requireinternational agreements to change our ways. Each ecosystem has its own vulnerabilitiesand requires its own solutions. There has to be a universally shared understanding of howthese systems work, and how those that have been damaged can be brought back to health. This comprehensive, detailed and immensely important report is grounded in thatunderstanding. It explains how we have come to create these problems and the actions wemust take to solve them. It then provides a map for navigating a path towards therestoration of our planet’s biodiversity. Economics is a discipline that shapes decisions of the utmost consequence, and so mattersto us all. The Dasgupta Review at last puts biodiversity at its core and provides the compassthat we urgently need. In doing so, it shows us how, by bringing economics and ecologytogether, we can help save the natural world at what may be the last minute – and in doingso, save ourselves. This was followed by a Panel Discussion on Understanding and Evaluating the Economics ofNigeria’s Biodiversity Led by ~Prof Partha Dasgupta – FRS FBA, is an Indian-British economist who is the Frank RamseyProfessor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Fellow ofSt John's College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor at the New College of the Humanities,London. ~Pius OKO, Head of Programs and Research, Lift Humanity Foundation and Project Lead atAfrican Coalition for Sustainable Energy Access (ACSEA) Project of the Pan African ClimateJustice Alliance (PACJA) ~ Chinma George, Chief Executive Officer ClimFinancing Consulting~ Seyifunmi Adebote is a leading environmental actor leading youth engagements across Nigeria and contributing significantly to youth inclusiveness in the UN, World Bank andother diplomatic institutions. He is the host of Climate Talk Podcast  Amb. Richard Abubakar Umar, Founder Youth Voyage of Nigeria, an Environmental Activist, Greenprenure SDGs advocate and a Commuinty driver.

Photo Speak: Cross Section of Participants and Representatives of Stakeholders President Muhammadu Buhari pledged that; Nigeria would cut its emissions to net zero by 2060. Mr. Pius Oko of Lift Humanity Foundation (LHF) anchored the event. Delivering his national statement at COP26 Leaders’ Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, the President said that – attaining national and global climate change goals would require adequate and sustained technical and financial support to developing countries. He also said that, greater effort should be channeled towards assisting developing nations to meet their ‘‘Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) commitments through the pledges made by the developed countries to provide at least $100 billion yearly.’’ Photo Speak: Cross section of delegates from Left to Right: Representative of the British High Commission, Director of the Institute of Environmental Studies, Environmental Advocate, and Partnering CSOs representative. Barely 6 days after the end of COP 26, President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law two important bills passed by the National Assembly thereby making them to become part of the Laws of the Federation. One of the bills is the Climate Change Act. The Climate Change Act owes its origin to a bill sponsored by a member of the House of Representatives, Sam Onuigbo and provides for, among other things, the mainstreaming of climate change actions and the establishment of a National Council on Climate Change. It also paves the way for environmental and economic accounting and a push for a net zero emission deadline plan in the country. However, as with every legislation, the true essence and implication of the bill has not been fully grasped in these early months of the Act.  To this., the Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP) in partnership with Lift Humanity Foundation and other relevant stakeholders on the 25th Day of May, 2022 embarked on the “Implement Climate Change Act Now” Workshop Program. Photo Speak: One of the Diplomatic Representative – British High Commission The essence of the program was to simplify and interpret the clauses of the Climate Change Act, get the Government of Nigeria to implement the climate change Act through sustained pressure, and to also increase awareness on the climate change Act and its implication for a better environment in Nigeria. This is important in order to galvanize support and foster synergy among relevant stakeholders for the effective implementation of the Act. More importantly, to provide climate change enthusiasts and activists crucial information concerning the Act in order to hold the government accountable and transparent. In attendance for the Stakeholders’ review of the Climate Change Act was the media, and at least 20 stakeholders that participated in the review cutting across from Ministries, Departments and Agencies that lobbied for the Bill Passage of the Climate Change Act. At the end of the 1day Stakeholder Review of the Climate Change Act Workshop; participants drawn from the Academia, CSOs, and relevant spheres came up with social media hashtags in a bid to reach-out to wider audience and the world at-large. These veritable hashtags are: #ClimateDemandNG #NaturesAct #PoliticsForClimateRescue #OneTreeOneVote #SaveTheFuture #PlantATreeNow #NotBusinessAsUsual #ImplementClimateChangeActForAction #ClimateChangeActNow #NoPoliticsWithoutClimateChangeActImplementation #Politics360 #GreenPolitics #SustainablePolitics #GlobalGoalMeetsLocalPolitics #TheActOurFuture

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